Girl with 1370 SAT gets in to 5 Ivies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She's an upper middle class DRIVEN teenager. I mean, she very clearly has a path she wants to pursue (the legal field) and the extracurriculars to back that up, that's exactly what colleges want. Of course she got into a ton of great schools, good for her!!!

Too bad she needs take LSAT

[Anonymous]

Where first gen is concerned, there have been a couple generations of affluent immigrant kids who have gone through the admissions process. AO’s are savvy enough to know who’s truly first gen- even if the parents attended college in another country.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So the schools are not obeying the law and still the racial discrimination.

Cut the funding already.

No! She's impressive! The activities and accolades (and maybe teacher LOR) are why she got in.

My Asian DD applied test optional (With similar test scores tbh) and got into MANY T20 schools (and is going to one of them)!

Agree! And I also have an ORM test op kid at an Ivy too....
Not sure why the hate here?
I think people don't understand what holistic admissions is.

There are a lot of us on here!!
The idiots here focused on test scores and nothing else don’t get it.

The sad and simple truth is that their children are not compelling. They are not interesting. They are not interested. And it comes across in everything they convey in the common app. They will never have the results our children have had. It has nothing to do with test scores.

No, you don't get it. No one is focused on the SAT as the only point. The application as presented in the article is not compelling and if the same exact stats were posted here, 100% would say this kid is not getting into an ivy, let alone no rejections from any ivies.

What in this app. is compelling and interesting besides URM status? I'm talking so compelling and so interesting that it is beyond what is expected or typically seen.

she tied her story together.
And if she was majoring in something undersubscribed that matters.
Exactly the formula my test optional Asian daughter used. And it worked.

If your child got into 5 ivies and waitlisted at 2 others with your secret sauce, wow. All ears. I assume that did not happen

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How did they know she was black? Was it in the essay?

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Anonymous wrote:How did they know she was black? Was it in the essay?

lol

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So the schools are not obeying the law and still the racial discrimination.

Cut the funding already.

No! She's impressive! The activities and accolades (and maybe teacher LOR) are why she got in.

My Asian DD applied test optional (With similar test scores tbh) and got into MANY T20 schools (and is going to one of them)!

Agree! And I also have an ORM test op kid at an Ivy too....
Not sure why the hate here?
I think people don't understand what holistic admissions is.

There are a lot of us on here!!
The idiots here focused on test scores and nothing else don’t get it.

The sad and simple truth is that their children are not compelling. They are not interesting. They are not interested. And it comes across in everything they convey in the common app. They will never have the results our children have had. It has nothing to do with test scores.

I know many interesting white or Asian kids with higher stats who had nowhere near that kind of success. People who overcame disabilities, took care of sick family, did advanced college level academic work on their own for fun, etc. I know one kid who did all 3, in fact, plus the higher stats. I don’t think you understand the extent to which race sways decisions, so you are struggling to understand the extent to which people want this in the past.

No.

You just don't want URMs, and blacks specifically, to get the same opportunities.
College admissions are subjective. Half the kids admitted are institutional priorities. Most are white. But no complaints on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just read the piece, and she seems like a completely wonderful person. Did you see that the Yale admissions
Officer hugger her because her essay left such a deep impression?

This is admissions working the right way. This is the kind of person who really should be given the best educational opportunities.

1370 is one data point, and it's also a respectable score, when balanced by all the other things she is doing with her time. She's a star.

She wrote about the Black community. She's not stupid. She made sure to let admissions know her race. Played the game well.

So we can all write about black community in the essay and get into ivies with low sat scores? What happens if we turn up not black?

[Anonymous]

Ask Rachel dolezal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the schools are not obeying the law and still the racial discrimination.

Cut the funding already.

No! She's impressive! The activities and accolades (and maybe teacher LOR) are why she got in.

My Asian DD applied test optional (With similar test scores tbh) and got into MANY T20 schools (and is going to one of them)!

Agree! And I also have an ORM test op kid at an Ivy too....
Not sure why the hate here?
I think people don't understand what holistic admissions is.

There are a lot of us on here!!
The idiots here focused on test scores and nothing else don’t get it.

The sad and simple truth is that their children are not compelling. They are not interesting. They are not interested. And it comes across in everything they convey in the common app. They will never have the results our children have had. It has nothing to do with test scores.

I know many interesting white or Asian kids with higher stats who had nowhere near that kind of success. People who overcame disabilities, took care of sick family, did advanced college level academic work on their own for fun, etc. I know one kid who did all 3, in fact, plus the higher stats. I don’t think you understand the extent to which race sways decisions, so you are struggling to understand the extent to which people want this in the past.

No.

You just don't want URMs, and blacks specifically, to get the same opportunities.
College admissions are subjective. Half the kids admitted are institutional priorities. Most are white. But no complaints on DCUM.

Yea, I want my kid to have the same opportunity to get into a bunch of Ivies with a SAT score that belongs at bad SEC schools.

[Anonymous]

So many entitled @$$holes in this thread. This kid is better than your kid - deal with it. Maybe you should have actually raised your kids to be interesting, well-rounded people with skills and hobbies and interests instead of making them spend every weekend at Kumon and coding camps so they can achieve “perfect” scores just like the thousands of other equally uninteresting and unimpressive kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many entitled @$$holes in this thread. This kid is better than your kid - deal with it. Maybe you should have actually raised your kids to be interesting, well-rounded people with skills and hobbies and interests instead of making them spend every weekend at Kumon and coding camps so they can achieve “perfect” scores just like the thousands of other equally uninteresting and unimpressive kids.

Better? No cap?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the schools are not obeying the law and still the racial discrimination.

Cut the funding already.

No! She's impressive! The activities and accolades (and maybe teacher LOR) are why she got in.

My Asian DD applied test optional (With similar test scores tbh) and got into MANY T20 schools (and is going to one of them)!

Agree! And I also have an ORM test op kid at an Ivy too....
Not sure why the hate here?
I think people don't understand what holistic admissions is.

There are a lot of us on here!!
The idiots here focused on test scores and nothing else don’t get it.

The sad and simple truth is that their children are not compelling. They are not interesting. They are not interested. And it comes across in everything they convey in the common app. They will never have the results our children have had. It has nothing to do with test scores.

I know many interesting white or Asian kids with higher stats who had nowhere near that kind of success. People who overcame disabilities, took care of sick family, did advanced college level academic work on their own for fun, etc. I know one kid who did all 3, in fact, plus the higher stats. I don’t think you understand the extent to which race sways decisions, so you are struggling to understand the extent to which people want this in the past.

No.

You just don't want URMs, and blacks specifically, to get the same opportunities.
College admissions are subjective. Half the kids admitted are institutional priorities. Most are white. But no complaints on DCUM.

Yea, I want my kid to have the same opportunity to get into a bunch of Ivies with a SAT score that belongs at bad SEC schools.

Your kid is a B+ student with sorry ECs.

Ain't happening. Sorry.

Roll Tide!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the schools are not obeying the law and still the racial discrimination.

Cut the funding already.

No! She's impressive! The activities and accolades (and maybe teacher LOR) are why she got in.

My Asian DD applied test optional (With similar test scores tbh) and got into MANY T20 schools (and is going to one of them)!

Agree! And I also have an ORM test op kid at an Ivy too....
Not sure why the hate here?
I think people don't understand what holistic admissions is.

There are a lot of us on here!!
The idiots here focused on test scores and nothing else don’t get it.

The sad and simple truth is that their children are not compelling. They are not interesting. They are not interested. And it comes across in everything they convey in the common app. They will never have the results our children have had. It has nothing to do with test scores.

I know many interesting white or Asian kids with higher stats who had nowhere near that kind of success. People who overcame disabilities, took care of sick family, did advanced college level academic work on their own for fun, etc. I know one kid who did all 3, in fact, plus the higher stats. I don’t think you understand the extent to which race sways decisions, so you are struggling to understand the extent to which people want this in the past.

But how did the kid convey it? If it wasn’t done well, none of these things matter.

In the case of the high stat kid who did all 3, you can assume the guidance counselor who read their essays felt they were very well written and their LORs were great.

For the record, I think adcoms have a very difficult job. But the argument articulated by some “they made a great decision on my ORM, so they must be making good decisions on everyone else too, and the rejected high stat kids must simply be boring” is offensively presumptuous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many entitled @$$holes in this thread. This kid is better than your kid - deal with it. Maybe you should have actually raised your kids to be interesting, well-rounded people with skills and hobbies and interests instead of making them spend every weekend at Kumon and coding camps so they can achieve “perfect” scores just like the thousands of other equally uninteresting and unimpressive kids.

She’s not interesting. She’s just a census category to those schools.

[Anonymous]

MIT does not believe that 100 to 200 point differences on a middle school bubble coloring multiple choice SAT test is the key to Nobel Laureate success, intellectual brilliance and success in career and life. Only a buffoon is intoxicated by this noise and nonsense. It a middle-school level test!